Is 60 dollars worth it for this phone?

[akazecks]

Hello, I was offered this phone for 60 dollars and am wondering if it is worth it. I have been reading that this phone has problems after a couple of months of use. Any opinions on this?

Also, to activate the phone I need it to have a good ESN and its UICC card right?

 

[davism]

You can get it for $29 at the Metro store.
Read the forums under everything root - almost impossible to mod (so far, but we all have faith in the guys there)
But it's a good phone - fast, I tether with Klink faster than DSL so don't pay the $10 for wifi hotspot, just get the unlimited $60 package. read the benchmark thread - it's up there with the high-end brand names.
Huawei's support is crap, however.

Has to have a good esn, but they'll pop a new card in each time it's activated. Before you buy, call metro from it & they'll tell you if it's good or not. If seller won't let you do that, tell him to take a hike.

 

[akazecks]

Thanks for the response. I called the local metropcs stores around here and none of them had it in stock. I read it went for 29 dollars new to get rid of stock, but have had no luck. I know on ebay, the going price is around 60. I just want to know how you guys feel about the phone. Any drawbacks or apps that don't work. Frequent crashes, etc...

 

[FaygoCola313]

The phones great imo. Only drawbacks being the battery and sometimes resets itself, But that latter might be a metro problem.

I couldnt be happier with this phone, I got it for $30 brand new from Metro.

 

[henrytamayo]

got this phone for 30 so i cant really complain but i dont really like the build quality if this phone feels cheap cameras good but it looks washed out it has random reboots,crappy battery life and also i noticed data jumps alot it will be 4g for a couple of seconds then it will go to but overall its an okay phone i think its worth 60 though but thats probably the most i would pay. ima save up for the l9

 

[akazecks]

I talked the guy down to 50, so I am going to meet him up and hopefully this phone wont be a disappointment. Hopefully some nice hacks come out for it. I loved my esteem and I think this phone could have some potential.

 

[WhnEvilStrks]

Honestly bud, I use this as my work phone. My personal phone and a few hobby phones are all Verizon Droid razrs, xt912's. But for the price you can't be unhappy with this premia. I got mine for $100 brand new from metro, rooted it instantly anger flashed the darkside rom. It runs waaaayyyy smoother than factory and I used a simple CPU setter application, NoFrillsCPU to dial it down to save battery life (factory life sucks) and I do have. Few random reboots every now and again but It's not horrible for What I paid..... if it was my first android I'd be reallllly upset and have chucked it for my blackberry back, but I don't mind the occasional restart I guess, It mainly happens while I have say, 3 or 4 heavy apps open, a few browser windows, some system tweak stuff maybe an mp3 player rolling....nothing my xt912 would flinch at but for a pre-paid $100 dual core 1.5ghz Droid that's set up pretty descent for me, it works for me.... best of luck with your choice.

 

[akazecks]

Thanks, I bought the phone it is quite good so far. I am enjoying it and tomorrow I will probably root it when I have the chance.

I will say to anyone buying this phone to make sure the person selling it to you will include the "Sim" card with it. I had the guy with me in the store to make sure I can activate it. He was going to keep the "sim" card because he thought it worked like a normal sim card. The employee had to tell him to go get the card because that phone would only work with the card it came with. If I didn't take that extra precaution, I would be out 50 bucks. The guy said it was all ready for activation but didn't know anything about the card. Luckily he had it in his car.

 

[WhnEvilStrks]

Glad you made out on the deal without getting ripped off. I rooted mine without a PC using framaroot. Simply download it, install, push the 2nd of the two options I believe and wham-o, your rooted.

 

[Tokenpoke]

Glad you made out on the deal without getting ripped off. I rooted mine without a PC using framaroot. Simply download it, install, push the 2nd of the two options I believe and wham-o, your rooted.

After root you can install recovery via terminal emulator too. For a full root/recovery setup without pc

 

[akazecks]

Wow, sounds nice. Hopefully it all goes well. I will probably root it on Monday. I would like to film the process so that I may share with others. Wont be my first rooted phone, wont be my last.